Solene Leroux
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09:58, February 03, 2022
Guest of Sonia Mabrouk’s interview on Thursday morning, the philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray attacked the head of state Emmanuel Macron, who has not officially declared his candidacy for the next presidential election. “There is a great impostor in power,” he castigated.
A non-existent presidential campaign. This is the opinion of the essayist Michel Onfray, guest of Sonia Mabrouk Thursday morning on Europe 1. The reason? “There is a great impostor who is in power, Emmanuel Macron, who everyone knows” is going to run in the next election. According to the philosopher, for the moment the head of state, “is using taxpayers’ money to campaign”. A situation that lacks decency according to him: “Decency would like that very quickly or very soon we let it be known that we are a candidate.”
“Today, the slightest character who supports someone in the presidential election finds himself nabbed by the CSA”, which controls the speaking time of politicians in this pre-election period, affirms Michel Onfray. “But he, Emmanuel Macron, he has all the rights,” he laments. “He can use state services and money to do a personal campaign.”
The Covid, an “electoral argument”
The philosopher did not mince his words on the five-year term which is ending. “I don’t see what we can put to his credit,” he castigates, believing that the current head of state has notably “done nothing for the yellow vests”. Michel Onfray also ensures that the Covid-19 has become an “electoral argument”.
Maastrichtian candidates
Asked about the possibility of having a next pro-European president, Michel Onfray said that “if we end up with a second round Pécresse / Macron, the case is settled”, both are Maastrichtian candidates according to him. He also says that Valérie Pécresse “defends a vision of the world which is exactly the same” as the current head of state. “She voted ‘Yes’ in Maastricht, for me it’s the dividing line,” he concluded.